The Blue Ghost lunar lander privately developed by Firefly Aerospace is carrying a suite of sophisticated instruments to the ...
Lunar Trailblazer launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Feb. 26 alongside Intuitive Machine's Athena moon lander on the IM-2 mission. The 11.5-foot (3.5-meter), 440-pound (200-kilogram) probe was ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
The touchdown comes after the spacecraft, part of a class of lunar landers known as Nova-C, entered the moon's orbit Monday just days after launching on and separating from the Falcon 9 rocket to ...
Things haven’t turned out as well for Intuitive Machines, whose spacecraft took a speedier path to the moon after launching on a Falcon 9 on February 26. The company experienced a repeat of the ...
And Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander launched aboard another Falcon 9 on Thursday. Having multiple spacecraft headed to the moon is “a proof point that Texas is the ...
Launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SPHEREx will map 450 million galaxies and could help unravel what happened after the Big Bang, while PUNCH will make ...
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Athena and Lunar Trailblazer to advance lunar water ice exploration and future missions.
Intuitive Machines launched a lunar lander named Athena, aiming for the moon’s south pole. The lander, which took off with SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, is set to land on March 6, hoping to ...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe could be in trouble. Lunar Trailblazer launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 on Feb. 26 alongside Intuitive Machine's Athena moon lander on the IM-2 mission. The 11.5-foot ...